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and to detect and throttle or cut off spam senders Isn't throttling outbound email count/day from the start the only real solution?
by le-mark 8y ago
and to detect and throttle or cut off spam senders
Isn't throttling outbound email count/day from the start the only real solution?
- ChuckMcM 8y agoIn my experience you can't know what is 'normal' until you have seen it, so fixing the rate at the start would be unduly onerous. People have lives which can sometimes look spammy, like you are made the coordinator of the school potluck and suddenly you're sending email to 150 parents asking them to volunteer to bring food. But after that event you go back to your regular rate. Because this isn't a "PC" in the sense that it is more difficult to be overtaken by a virus and start sending spam without your knowledge, and as a mail service provider you know that email originating from the device has to come from a specific domain, you have a lot more tools to detect that someone is being a bad actor or not.
- jethro_tell 8y agoNo, the way the big boys get around this is outbound email filtering. Limits yes, session and connection heuristics, reading your outbound email to see if you're selling dick pills.